A further 230 jobs are to be cut from Dell's Limerick and Cherrywood, Dublin operations in Ireland.

Dell is seeking to save $4 billion globally by 2011 and has been hit by weakening demand.

This week, Dell asked its 5,000 employees in Malaysia to apply for voluntary redundancy, without specifying the number of job cuts it plans to make.

Dell is reported to be seeking  staff reductions of 105 of the payroll in Dublin and Limerick.

In Limerick the non-manufacturing sector, including research and development, is to be affected with 100 jobs being lost.

Cherrywood in south Dublin, which provides sales services to Ireland and the UK and technical support to the Europe, Middle East and Africa, will lose 130 jobs.

Dell announced the closure of its Limerick plant last January and 1,900 jobs direct jobs were lost.